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Cute, cuddly, squeezable are names we use to describe adorable baby animals. But, do you know their actual baby names? Take this quiz to see how many animal baby names you can figure out. Be careful, some of these are tricky!
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Hatchling
In sea turtles, the sex of a hatchling is determined by incubation temperature. Turtle hatchlings will instinctively swim against waves to to reach safety.
Cub
Caterpillar
Kid
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Chick
Calf
A giraffe calf can stand up and walk within an hour of its birth! Giraffes are not only the tallest mammals on earth, but they can also run as fast as 35 mph.
Duckling
Tadpole
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Filly
Piglet
Polliwog
Frogs begin their lives as tadpoles, or polywogs that are hatched in the water from tiny jelly-covered eggs. The mother frog will lay thousands of eggs at one time.
Calf
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Kitten
Puppy
Nestling
Kid
Goats were one of the first animals to be tamed by humans and were being herded 9,000 years ago. Their average birth rate is 2.2 kids per year.
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Foal
Fry
Gosling
Geese fly in a “V” formation. If one goose is injured, other geese will stay with it until it dies or can rejoin the flock.
Leveret
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Foal
Chick
Chicks refer to a variety of baby birds. At hatching, a flamingo chick has grey down feathers and is the size of a tennis ball.
Tadpole
Cub
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Fawn
Polliwog
Shoat
Infant
Like humans, baby monkeys are also called infants. Scientist have discovered 264 known spices of monkeys.
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Calf
Baby elephants are called calves and adult males are called bulls and the females cows. Elephants are pregnant for a whopping 22 months and their babies weigh an average of 200 lbs at birth.
Foal
Hatchling
Fry
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Antling
Cub
Lion cubs are born with tawny black spots which eventually disappear as they grow older. Mothers can give birth to up to 6 cubs at a time!
Kitten
Tadpole
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Colt
Elver
Though they look like snakes, eels are actually fish! Eel is a delicacy in some cultures, but it's blood is toxic, so it needs to be cooked thoroughly.
Joey
Piglet
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Calf
Beluga whales are known for being vocal. They are social creatures and tend to travel in large groups.
Cub
Kit
Fawn
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Lamb
Fry
Infant
Foal
It takes roughly 11 months for a foal to fully develop inside of the horse. They can get sick easily due to their poor immune system.
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Eaglet
Lamb
Fawn
Pup
Baby sharks, or pups, instinctively know how to survive immediately after birth. The mother shark goes about her business without giving her baby a second thought.
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Piglet
The smallest boar is the pygmy hog. It grows to a length between 1.8 and 2.4 feet tall from hoof to shoulder.
Kolt
Maggot
Puggle
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Squab
Lamb
Pup
Joey
A newborn joey can't suckle or swallow, so the kangaroo mom must use her muscles to help pump milk down her baby's throat.
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Chulengo
Duckling
A male duck is called a drake, a female duck a hen, and a baby duck a duckling.
Poult
Kit
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Calf
Bongos are a type of antelope that live in African lowland rain forests.
Poliwog
Cub
Pup
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Owlet
Chick
Chicks can see in full color, just like humans!
Spat
Cub
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Calf
Camels humps are used to store fat and not water as popularly believed. Their humps help the camels stay cool in hot climates and their fat can be converted to food and water when their bodies need it.
Cub
Piglet
Fry
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Joey
Tadpole
Squab
Cria
A baby llama is called a cria, and can weigh 20-30 pounds at birth. Crias are usually up and walking around within one hour of being born!
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Cub
Colt
A male baby horse is called a colt. Horses have the largest eyes out of any land animal!
Chick
Calf
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Fawn
Are you my brother? Twin fawns are separated by their mother and typically not reunited until several weeks later.
Kid
Eaglet
Polliwog
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Bunny
Lamb
Cygnet
Calf
Manatees are nicknamed sea cows due to their large stature. They are herbivores and can safely move between salty and fresh water without being harmed.
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Kit
Hatchling
Pup
Baby wolves are known as pups or puppies. Pups grow rapidly, and gain between 2.6 and 3.3 pounds per week for the first 14 weeks of their lives!
Duckling
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Kitten
All kittens are born with blue eyes, but most of them will eventually turn green, yellow, or brown. Melanin, the pigment responsible for determining eye color, doesn’t move into a kitten’s eyes until she’s nearly 12 weeks old.
Leveret
Filly
Poult
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Calf
Cows can't vomit. The average cow drinks 30 to 50 gallons of water each day and they're masters at keeping their liquids down. Cows have FOUR compartments in their stomachs! The rumen, reticulum, omasum and the abomasum.
Foal
Squab
Chick
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Cub
Baby cheetas are blind at birth and are covered with a thick coat of fur, called a mantle, which helps to protect them from predators.
Infant
Joey
Calf
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Fawn
Cub
Antling
Chick
The ostrich is the tallest and the heaviest of all birds! While the huge ostrich is a bird, it cannot fly- it simply runs.
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Caterpillar
Kit
Unfortunately for the kit, their small size makes them highly vulnerable to woodland predators like bears and wolves. At birth, they only weighs about 1 pound!
Shoat
Chick
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What is the baby name of the animal shown here?
Antling
Squab
Cub
Kit
Fox Kits are born blind, deaf, and toothless, but mature quickly. Around 4-5 weeks, their blue eyes darken to amber; within the first month, they develop their trademark white face patches; and they reach adult proportions in as little as six months.
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Duckling
Eyas
Keet
Ephyna
The Ephyna is a baby jellyfish. A group of jellyfish is called a 'bloom', 'swarm' or 'smack'.
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Piglet
Puggle
Platypus babies, or puggles, are born smaller than a jelly bean!
Bunny
Squab
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Kit
Newborn ferrets are tiny at birth! They can fit into a teaspoon. On average, ferrets live to be 6 or 7 years old.
Antling
Squab
Cub
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Calf
Antelopes can live in diverse terrain that range from desserts to mountains to grasslands and wetlands. They have very sensitive senses that allow them to escape predators before it's too late.
Fry
Kitten
Chick
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Kitten
Bearcats smell like freshly made popcorn! They like to climb trees and use their tails, like monkeys do, to help them move from branch to branch.
Puppy
Lamb
Foal
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Cria
Fledgling
A fledgling is a baby bird that has some feathers and can hop around. Their parents push them out of the nest on purpose to help it learn to fly.
Chick
Larva
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Kid
Gosling
Shoat
Eyas
Eyases eat a ton of food and double their weight in only six days. At three weeks, they are ten times birth size.
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Owlet
Cub
Cria
Cria comes from the Spanish word cría, meaning "baby". Twin crias are rare and dangerous, approximately 1⁄1000, slightly rarer than the proportion of twins in human births.
Kid
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Joey
Lamb
Fry
The name for baby fish is quite ironic: fry, a common method of preparing the edible varieties to eat.
Poult
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Caterpillar
Pup
Bat pups grow up quickly. Some species start hunting on their own within a month of being born.
Cygnet
Fawn
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What is the baby name of the animal shown here?
Kit
Stoat
A Stoat has a similar appearance to a weasel, although the stoat is considerably larger and has a distinctive black tip to its tail. They mainly feast off rabbits.
Fledgling
Shoat
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What is the baby name of the animal shown here?
Spiderling
Hatchling
Squab
Once a squab leaves the nest for the first time, it ignores its parents, begins to feed itself, and joins a flock (like a true teenager). The flock is very particular to the area, sort of like a gang.
Larva
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Calf
Pup
Mice, dogs, seals and sharks, oh my! Several animals are called pups at birth. Even baby beavers are referred to as pups.
Kit
Nestling
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Calf
Bunny
Owlet
Leveret
Rather than sheltering their newborn young from potential dangers in their environment, a mother hare will leave her leveret behind for long periods of time -- within an hour of their birth -- in order to avoid attracting predators to them.
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